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W$t JSufee Cljromcle
Volume 65, Number 118
Durham, North Carolina
Tuesday, April 21, 1970
Troop withdrawal will
continue at present rate
Photo by Lyle
Many work to stop smoking; Durham smoking is it's work.
Siri talk opens
Ecos earth week
By Brenda Mabry
News Editor
Dr. William Siri spoke in
Baldwin last night as a featured
speaker of the Durham ECOS
environmental teach-in, which
began yesterday and will continue
through tomorrow.
Siri is a research biophysicist at
the University of Southern
California, and though his research
has extended into many areas, his
. specialty has been the study of man
under stressful conditions,
particularly at high altitudes. In the
course of such research, Siri has
climbed in most of the major
mountain ranges of the world, and
led an expedition up Mount Everest
Peace
Participants in last
weekend's Fast for Peace will
accept contributions for the
three organizations supported
by the fast at a table on the
main quad today and
tomorrow:
Funds collected will be
donated to the American
Friends* Service Committee,
the YM-YWCA Anti-ROTC
Scholarship Fund, and the
Cherokee Indian Reservation
in western North Carolina.
in 1963.
He has been a director of the
Sierra Club, a conservationist
society begun in 1892, for 15 years,
serving as president from 1964 to
1966. The credits of this
organization include preservation of
the Grand Canyon and the giant
redwoods of California. They now
have a drive under way to preserve
the San Francisco Bay from further
destruction and restore it to a
closer approximation of its natural
state.
ECOS founding chairman Roy
Young presented University Vice
President Charles Huestis, who
introduced Siri. Huestis is a
personal friend of Siri and serves
with him as a director of the Sierra
Club.
Siri said he found the differences
between Duke and Berkeley
"overwhelming." He commented
with amusement on the
administrative differences, saying
"Duke is fortunate to have as
president a former governor who is
probably one of the most
enlightened statesmen in the
country. We at Berkeley live in
mortal fear of our governor
becoming university president."
Impressed by Durham
Siri was more seriously
impressed by the relatively
(Continued on Page 6)
By Robert B. Semple Jr.
(C) 19 70 N.Y. Times News Service
SAN CLEMENTE-President
Nixon pledged last night to
withdraw an additional 150,000
troops from South Vietnam over
the next year and once again
appealed to the North Vietnamese
to undertake serious negotiations.
Speaking to the country from
his residence here, Nixon set forth a
withdrawal scheme that seemed
designed to reassure his domestic
critics that he intended to proceed
with his withdrawal strategy yet
leave himself and his military
commanders wide latitude to
determine the pace of
disengagement.
To the nation he gave a
commitment that between now and
next April the authorized troop
levels in Vietnam—the present
coiling is 434,000—would be
reduced by 150,000 to a new
ceiling of 284,000.
To his military advisors he gave
implicit assurances that the rate of
withdrawal could be adjusted to the
level of North Vietnamese activity
and other battlefield factors in
South Vietnam.
Since Nixon announced the first
round of withdrawals last June,
American troops have been leaving
Vietnam at a rate of about 12,000
men per month. The average
monthly reductions under the
scheme announced last night would
remain roughly the same.
Withdrawals may increase
But officials here conceded that
while they hoped to undertake
"significant" withdrawals in the
early stages of the plan it was
entirely possible that more men
would be withdrawn near the end
of the timetable, especially if
battlefield conditions took a
sudden turn for the worse. And the
President himself said:
"The timing and pace of these
new withdrawals within the overall
schedule will be determined by our
best judgment of the current
military and diplomatic situation."
On balance, however, officials
here portrayed the announcement
as a vote of confidence in the
President's Viet nam ization
program—that is, the effort to train
and equip South Vietnamese forces
to assume a larger share of the
burden, and to "pacify" the rural
countryside and bring ever-larger
areas of it under government
control.
Nixon noted "significant
For CIA protest
Charges dropped
By Mike Manning
West Campus Reporter
Participants in the Feb. 10 CIA
demonstration will not be
prosecuted under the University
Pickets and Protest Policy
according to a statement released
yesterday by William Griffith, dean
of student affairs.
According to Griffith, evidence
gathered in an investigation of the
demonstration "is supportive of the
fact that there is probably cause to
believe that the alleged act did
occur."
"However, the investigation has
yielded insufficient evidence against
Contraception guide published
By Susan Tifft
East Campus Reporter
The "Guide to Contraception
and Abortion" is scheduled for
distribution to members of the
Duke community tomorrow.
The thirty-two page booklet,
compiled by the Committee on
Contraception and Abortion, will
be placed in each girl's box on East
Campus, the Graduate Center and
Hanes House free of charge. Copies
will also be distributed to residents
of West Campus, and will be made
available for off-campus residents
by the presentation of a Duke I.D.
Weather
Partly cloudy today with high in
the mid 70's, low around 45-50.
20% chance of precipitation today.
Fair and cooler Wednesday with
high around 65-70.
at the information desk.
The booklet was written
primarily by two medical students,
Robin Beach and Martin Schwartz.
Beach, a member of the Sex
Education Committee at the Duke
Hospital, wrote the sections dealing
with contraception and venereal
disease, while Schwartz deals with
the subjects of pregnancy diagnosis
and abortion.
P r i nting of the booklet was
financed by the Committee itself,
several girls' dorms and ASDU, who
last week allotted $566.50 for the
project.
The booklet deals with all
aspects of contraception, abortion,
and pregnancy tests. The section on
contraceptives describes the various
methods and how to use them, the
acceptability of each method and
its r el lability and effectiveness.
Venereal disease symptoms are
discussed as well as the various
types of pregnancy tests and their
availability.
The section on abortion
acquaints students with the North
Carolina statute concerning the
legality of abortions, and also
familiarizes the student with the
cost and methods involved.
When questioned about the
possible legality of such a booklet,
John Scott, medical student and
head of the Committee on
Contraception and Abortion, stated
that no doctors' names are
mentioned concerning abortions.
The only names printed in
connection with this topic are the
names of dorm representatives on
East Campus, the Graduate Center
and Hanes House.
The last pages of the booklet
constitute a list of different services
available to the student in need of
contraceptives, a pregnancy test or
(Continued on Page 2)
a specific individual or groups of
individuals to bring said charges,"
Griffith added.
Yesterday's statement, according
to Griffith, "closes the case as far as
this office is concerned."
Griffith's statement yesterday
concluded the recent investigation
conducted by a graduate law
student under Griffith's direction.
The investigation, which included
interviews with observers and
participants in the demonstration,
sought to gather information about
the Feb. 10 demonstration.
On Feb. 10 over 50 students
gathered outside 201 Flowers
where a CIA representative was
conducting job interviews with
Duke applicants. The students
allegedly disrupted the interviews
by knocking on the door, chanting,
and singing.
The CIA interviewer saw no
a p p 1 icants during the time the
protestors were outside the door.
He left the campus without seeing
several applicants.
advances," in the Vietnam
situation.
In what may turn out to be a
subtle out important change,
however, Nixon did not insist on
free elections as the preferred
mechanism by which "the will of
the South Vietnamese people"
could be translated into political
order. The White House has placed
heavy emphasis on free elections in
(Continued on Page 8)
Petition
protests
selection
By Diane Lubovsky
Academics Editor
A petition being circulated
today charges that the apparent
selection of a new dean of women
has been made "with no open and
solicited input from students of the
Woman's College."
A member of the ad hoc
committee which met last night to
draft the petition explained that
the petition arose "in response to
the approval which the Board of
Trustees gave last week to an
individual who was chosen without
any form of student consultation."
The petition states that "we, the
undersigned...insist that any
appointments which have been
made beheld over."
It also advocates that a search
committee which "includes a
significant Dercent of students" be
(Continued on Page 6)
to By i-yie
Climb to bigger and better things
in Durham industry.
Corridor dorm formed
Last week the Residential Life
Committee approved a new living
option for men on West Campus.
House N will be converted into a
new cross-sectional dormitory
organized into living-learning
corridors on a variety of topics,
depending on student interest. The
new living group is designed to be
oriented primarily towards
academic interests, serving the same
purpose on West Campus as the
new Experimental College does on
East Campus.
Preliminary suggestions for
corridor top.ics include the
following: German and other
languages, contemporary music,
science, environmental studies,
engineering, and black studies.
Students man apply for other
topics if they wish.
Financial assistance for corridor
activities from the University will
be available if the response justifies
it, according to members of the
Residential Life Committee. This
(Continued on Page ?.)

W$t JSufee Cljromcle
Volume 65, Number 118
Durham, North Carolina
Tuesday, April 21, 1970
Troop withdrawal will
continue at present rate
Photo by Lyle
Many work to stop smoking; Durham smoking is it's work.
Siri talk opens
Ecos earth week
By Brenda Mabry
News Editor
Dr. William Siri spoke in
Baldwin last night as a featured
speaker of the Durham ECOS
environmental teach-in, which
began yesterday and will continue
through tomorrow.
Siri is a research biophysicist at
the University of Southern
California, and though his research
has extended into many areas, his
. specialty has been the study of man
under stressful conditions,
particularly at high altitudes. In the
course of such research, Siri has
climbed in most of the major
mountain ranges of the world, and
led an expedition up Mount Everest
Peace
Participants in last
weekend's Fast for Peace will
accept contributions for the
three organizations supported
by the fast at a table on the
main quad today and
tomorrow:
Funds collected will be
donated to the American
Friends* Service Committee,
the YM-YWCA Anti-ROTC
Scholarship Fund, and the
Cherokee Indian Reservation
in western North Carolina.
in 1963.
He has been a director of the
Sierra Club, a conservationist
society begun in 1892, for 15 years,
serving as president from 1964 to
1966. The credits of this
organization include preservation of
the Grand Canyon and the giant
redwoods of California. They now
have a drive under way to preserve
the San Francisco Bay from further
destruction and restore it to a
closer approximation of its natural
state.
ECOS founding chairman Roy
Young presented University Vice
President Charles Huestis, who
introduced Siri. Huestis is a
personal friend of Siri and serves
with him as a director of the Sierra
Club.
Siri said he found the differences
between Duke and Berkeley
"overwhelming." He commented
with amusement on the
administrative differences, saying
"Duke is fortunate to have as
president a former governor who is
probably one of the most
enlightened statesmen in the
country. We at Berkeley live in
mortal fear of our governor
becoming university president."
Impressed by Durham
Siri was more seriously
impressed by the relatively
(Continued on Page 6)
By Robert B. Semple Jr.
(C) 19 70 N.Y. Times News Service
SAN CLEMENTE-President
Nixon pledged last night to
withdraw an additional 150,000
troops from South Vietnam over
the next year and once again
appealed to the North Vietnamese
to undertake serious negotiations.
Speaking to the country from
his residence here, Nixon set forth a
withdrawal scheme that seemed
designed to reassure his domestic
critics that he intended to proceed
with his withdrawal strategy yet
leave himself and his military
commanders wide latitude to
determine the pace of
disengagement.
To the nation he gave a
commitment that between now and
next April the authorized troop
levels in Vietnam—the present
coiling is 434,000—would be
reduced by 150,000 to a new
ceiling of 284,000.
To his military advisors he gave
implicit assurances that the rate of
withdrawal could be adjusted to the
level of North Vietnamese activity
and other battlefield factors in
South Vietnam.
Since Nixon announced the first
round of withdrawals last June,
American troops have been leaving
Vietnam at a rate of about 12,000
men per month. The average
monthly reductions under the
scheme announced last night would
remain roughly the same.
Withdrawals may increase
But officials here conceded that
while they hoped to undertake
"significant" withdrawals in the
early stages of the plan it was
entirely possible that more men
would be withdrawn near the end
of the timetable, especially if
battlefield conditions took a
sudden turn for the worse. And the
President himself said:
"The timing and pace of these
new withdrawals within the overall
schedule will be determined by our
best judgment of the current
military and diplomatic situation."
On balance, however, officials
here portrayed the announcement
as a vote of confidence in the
President's Viet nam ization
program—that is, the effort to train
and equip South Vietnamese forces
to assume a larger share of the
burden, and to "pacify" the rural
countryside and bring ever-larger
areas of it under government
control.
Nixon noted "significant
For CIA protest
Charges dropped
By Mike Manning
West Campus Reporter
Participants in the Feb. 10 CIA
demonstration will not be
prosecuted under the University
Pickets and Protest Policy
according to a statement released
yesterday by William Griffith, dean
of student affairs.
According to Griffith, evidence
gathered in an investigation of the
demonstration "is supportive of the
fact that there is probably cause to
believe that the alleged act did
occur."
"However, the investigation has
yielded insufficient evidence against
Contraception guide published
By Susan Tifft
East Campus Reporter
The "Guide to Contraception
and Abortion" is scheduled for
distribution to members of the
Duke community tomorrow.
The thirty-two page booklet,
compiled by the Committee on
Contraception and Abortion, will
be placed in each girl's box on East
Campus, the Graduate Center and
Hanes House free of charge. Copies
will also be distributed to residents
of West Campus, and will be made
available for off-campus residents
by the presentation of a Duke I.D.
Weather
Partly cloudy today with high in
the mid 70's, low around 45-50.
20% chance of precipitation today.
Fair and cooler Wednesday with
high around 65-70.
at the information desk.
The booklet was written
primarily by two medical students,
Robin Beach and Martin Schwartz.
Beach, a member of the Sex
Education Committee at the Duke
Hospital, wrote the sections dealing
with contraception and venereal
disease, while Schwartz deals with
the subjects of pregnancy diagnosis
and abortion.
P r i nting of the booklet was
financed by the Committee itself,
several girls' dorms and ASDU, who
last week allotted $566.50 for the
project.
The booklet deals with all
aspects of contraception, abortion,
and pregnancy tests. The section on
contraceptives describes the various
methods and how to use them, the
acceptability of each method and
its r el lability and effectiveness.
Venereal disease symptoms are
discussed as well as the various
types of pregnancy tests and their
availability.
The section on abortion
acquaints students with the North
Carolina statute concerning the
legality of abortions, and also
familiarizes the student with the
cost and methods involved.
When questioned about the
possible legality of such a booklet,
John Scott, medical student and
head of the Committee on
Contraception and Abortion, stated
that no doctors' names are
mentioned concerning abortions.
The only names printed in
connection with this topic are the
names of dorm representatives on
East Campus, the Graduate Center
and Hanes House.
The last pages of the booklet
constitute a list of different services
available to the student in need of
contraceptives, a pregnancy test or
(Continued on Page 2)
a specific individual or groups of
individuals to bring said charges,"
Griffith added.
Yesterday's statement, according
to Griffith, "closes the case as far as
this office is concerned."
Griffith's statement yesterday
concluded the recent investigation
conducted by a graduate law
student under Griffith's direction.
The investigation, which included
interviews with observers and
participants in the demonstration,
sought to gather information about
the Feb. 10 demonstration.
On Feb. 10 over 50 students
gathered outside 201 Flowers
where a CIA representative was
conducting job interviews with
Duke applicants. The students
allegedly disrupted the interviews
by knocking on the door, chanting,
and singing.
The CIA interviewer saw no
a p p 1 icants during the time the
protestors were outside the door.
He left the campus without seeing
several applicants.
advances," in the Vietnam
situation.
In what may turn out to be a
subtle out important change,
however, Nixon did not insist on
free elections as the preferred
mechanism by which "the will of
the South Vietnamese people"
could be translated into political
order. The White House has placed
heavy emphasis on free elections in
(Continued on Page 8)
Petition
protests
selection
By Diane Lubovsky
Academics Editor
A petition being circulated
today charges that the apparent
selection of a new dean of women
has been made "with no open and
solicited input from students of the
Woman's College."
A member of the ad hoc
committee which met last night to
draft the petition explained that
the petition arose "in response to
the approval which the Board of
Trustees gave last week to an
individual who was chosen without
any form of student consultation."
The petition states that "we, the
undersigned...insist that any
appointments which have been
made beheld over."
It also advocates that a search
committee which "includes a
significant Dercent of students" be
(Continued on Page 6)
to By i-yie
Climb to bigger and better things
in Durham industry.
Corridor dorm formed
Last week the Residential Life
Committee approved a new living
option for men on West Campus.
House N will be converted into a
new cross-sectional dormitory
organized into living-learning
corridors on a variety of topics,
depending on student interest. The
new living group is designed to be
oriented primarily towards
academic interests, serving the same
purpose on West Campus as the
new Experimental College does on
East Campus.
Preliminary suggestions for
corridor top.ics include the
following: German and other
languages, contemporary music,
science, environmental studies,
engineering, and black studies.
Students man apply for other
topics if they wish.
Financial assistance for corridor
activities from the University will
be available if the response justifies
it, according to members of the
Residential Life Committee. This
(Continued on Page ?.)